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Our era is defined by the model. From Victoria's Secret and America's Next Top Model to the snapshots we post on Facebook and Twitter, our culture is fixated on the pose, the state of existing simultaneously as artifice and the real thing.

In this bold view of contemporary culture, Wendy Steiner shows us the very meaning of the arts in the process of transformation. Her story begins at the turn of the last century, as the arts abandoned the representation of the world for a heady embrace of the abstract, the surreal, and the self-referential. Today though, this "separate...

Guy Maddin is Canada's most iconoclastic filmmaker. Through his reinvention of half-forgotten film genres, his remobilization of abandoned techniques from the early history of cinema, and his unique editing style, Maddin has created a critically successful body of work that looks like nothing else in Canadian film. My Winnipeg (2008), which Roger Ebert called one of the ten best films of the first decade of the twenty-first century, has consolidated Maddin's international reputation.

In this sixth volume of the Canadian Cinema series, Darren Wershler argues that Maddin's use...

Nominated for the Best contribution to Slavic Linguistics/AATSEEL book award 2011

The concept of complex emotions is obviously polysemous. On the one hand, we can interpret it as a non-basic, non-prototypical, or culture-specific notion, on the other - and this is the interpretation we propose in this work - a complex emotion concept can be looked upon as a concept whose complexity emerges in interaction, due to the complex nature of its object. Our interpretation is thus construction-based, one in which meaning is not to be found...

Ce volume contient 305 lettres d'une belle diversite de ton et d'ecriture sur des sujets varies. L'annee 1810, est faite d'agitation sentimentale, entre une epouse que Constant aime et une Germaine de Stael qu'il ne peut abandonner dans les malheurs qui la frappent. D'enormes pertes au jeu lui imposent ensuite la vente des Herbages avant que son pere lui dispute les biens qu'il lui avait remis. Le voyage vers l'Allemagne, au printemps 1811, donne matiere a des lettres a dominante touristique, mais l'accueil au Hardenberg et le confort intellectuel qu'offre a Constant la bibliotheque de...